Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?

Don't underestimate kindess, gentleness and patience in a man.

The pen is mightier than the sword

I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

How did he do it? He must be a genius!

Choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

The French selectors never do anything by halves; for the first international of the season against Ireland they dropped half the three-quarter line.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.